A World War Two bunker has been uncovered beneath a Bristol primary school with original markings from the era - but it is set to be filled in.

The air raid shelter found under the playground of Hillcrest Primary School in School Road, Totterdown, still features original graffiti and other scrawls by schoolchildren waiting for the Nazi bombers to pass overhead during the Blitz.

While today the walls might be covered in swear words and tags, in the bunker there are games of hangman, noughts and crosses and nursery rhymes covering the inside of brickwork tunnel under the school near the Arnos Vale Cemetery.

One of the more poignant messages reads: "D Jones. Born Nov 29th 1921, 22 Clyde Road, Knowle." Today, the author of the scribbled message would be 96 years old and closing in on their 97th.

The message from D. Jones (Image: Bristol Live)

Another says: "Betty Clease is a fool.” While a more amorous message read: “Pamela goes with me".

Betty features heavily on the shelter’s walls — another picture shows her going shopping while another shows her holding hands with a boy called Ken.

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However, despite this being a lasting reminder of what must have been a terrifying time for the schoolchildren as well as the innocence of youth at the time, Bristol City Council has deemed the shelter unsafe and it is set to be filled in.